BMC to Buy BladeLogic

With this acquisition, BMC will add data center automation to its business service management portfolio.

IT management software maker BMC Software on Monday revealed it had struck a deal to buy data center automation player BladeLogic, for nearly $800 million.

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The acquisition  which will see BMC buying BladeLogic, for $28 per share in cash, above Friday's $23.61 close  is designed to round out BMC's product portfolio.

BMC makes business service management (BSM) software that helps IT staff manage an enterprise's technology.

Adding BladeLogic's service to its own roster of BSM products could enable BMC to offer businesses greater IT automation  seen as a way to cut costs as budgets balloon.

"Organizations around the world will spend more than $140 billion dollars this year running data centers," said Bob Beauchamp, BMC's president and chief executive officer. "Automation is the only way IT can bring this spending under control and still meet the reliability and time-to-market requirements of their businesses."

Beauchamp also described the two companies' merger as "a natural and very significant next step."

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